May 2010 it is more difficult to obtain a UK Tourist Visa

Categories: UK

Migration certainly was a strong topic with all of the political parties in the UK 2010 elections. Obviously the voting was such that a coalition government was formed between the Tories and Liberal democrats.

This collation government has had an obvious immediate effect on relationships between UK and Thai citizens. The two parties agreed on certain policies and one of these policies was to decrees migration from non European countries. In other words, the government can not stop people from Europe coming into the UK but they can stop people from other countries from entering the UK. The UK Immigration service has been instructed to cut back on the amount of people coming in to the UK.

An obvious area that migration cut backs can be made is Thailand. Every year many UK men travel to Thailand for a holiday, fall in love with a local thai lady and either

Apply to bring their Thai girlfriend back to the UK on a UK tourist Visa
Marry their Thai wife and apply for a visa to allow her to relocate to the UK
Arrange for their Thai girlfriend to travel to the UK so they can marry once she is their.

The easiest way to reduce migration is to make the process of applying for a visa tougher. The requirements the UK immigration department requires to issue a UK tourist visa has not changed, but are being enforced more than before.

The UK immigration department will look more closely at the application including the Thai national’s job history, assets held